This morning between 07:10 or so and 08:10 I discovered that my PC had shut itself off. I thought it was due to a power failure becuase I never turn it off without a good reason, and it had been running (and playing sounds) until it wasn't. My roommate/landlord tells me that the only anomaly he observed was that our router had lost its internet connection (via a cable modem, which was still running fine), and his computer, a laptop, and clocks all seemed to be running normally. I checked all the logs in /var/log and there's nothing in there other than the restart - no temp warnings or anything. The machine has been up and running smoothly since the last time I shut it off (to move), a week ago last Friday (8/6). I don't have a UPS or BB, so is there any way that I can diagnose this further? Here's another weird thing - 'dmesg | grep Aug' shows this: Linux version 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 (mockbuild at builder10.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:05:06 EDT 2010 EDAC MC: Ver: 2.0.1 Aug 10 2010 EDAC amd64_edac: Ver: 3.2.0 Aug 10 2010 That's probably when I last restarted after installing the new kernel. But: $ date Wed Aug 18 11:52:23 PDT 2010 And /var/log/messages shows this: : Aug 18 06:35:57 marichter dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.0.2 port 67 Aug 18 06:35:57 marichter dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.0.2 Aug 18 06:35:57 marichter dhclient: bound to 192.168.0.100 -- renewal in 5154 se conds. Aug 18 06:44:28 marichter smartd[3829]: Device: /dev/sdb, 4294967295 Currently u nreadable (pending) sectors Aug 18 06:44:28 marichter smartd[3829]: Device: /dev/sdb, 4294967295 Offline unc orrectable sectors Aug 18 08:10:45 marichter syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Aug 18 08:10:45 marichter kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Aug 18 08:10:45 marichter kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 (mockbuild at b uilder10.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:05:06 EDT 2010 : What's up with that??? (Not the disk issue - that's a Seagate problem that, fortunately, means nothing, and yes, I've gone through that one before....) Why doesn't dmesg show the most recent boot? marichter 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:05:06 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64 Thanks. Mark